Thursday, April 2, 2015

Like That New Technology? Better Thank Porn!

Greed is neither a good nor a bad thing, it is simply a
motivational tool, and some use it the right way and others use it the wrong
way. I’m willing to talk about both, but as it pertains to technology, there is
no doubt that greed is the motivation behind all of the good and bad that we
have. Think about it this way, but if someone wasn’t making a profit, then you
wouldn’t have that new iPhone.

There are other vices that go into the technology that you
have, and how it has been marketed has a lot more to do with why you own it,
than any sort of grand good that can come of it. You remember how everyone had
a VCR at one time? These things were really expensive when they first came out
and there was competing technologies that drove the market. The VCR itself was
one technology and then we all probably remember the Betamax, which was another
technology. The Betamax that Sony had created and marketed for quite a while
was a superior format, but the standardization of VHS made it a niche market.

If you were around for it, you knew that the Betamax had
such great technology as 4 heads, stereo, and a few other features long before
the VCR did, but the VCR was a lot cheaper, and far more widely distributed.
The reason for this was a vice bigger than greed, which has always driven the
home theater market, pornography. When the porn industry started really pumping
out the VCR tapes of porn, it drove the prices of the equipment and the
recording media. It also made the standardization of the VCR crush the potential
standardization of the Betamax. The end was there, and really only the high end
video aficionados stuck it out with the Betamax, until the next big thing came
along, the DVD.

Now the DVD was another one of those things that came out of
the need for a better way to distribute porn. There was a technology called the
Laserdisc which was far superior to the DVD and it had been around for quite a
while. I personally was a big fan of the laserdisc and if I hadn’t lost all of
my discs and the player in my first divorce I would probably still have a huge
library of them. Of course the need for a smaller media was driven, not really
by the movie industry, because let’s be real, their greed made them want less
media formats, but the greed of the porn industry. In the end who wants
laserdiscs the size of record albums flowing through the mail system,
potentially embarrassing those that buy porn?

Then of course the breakout of the internet was porn driven.
If you really love the internet, and you have nothing to do with porn you still
have to thank the porn industry. They were the ones who saw the profit in
anonymous digital streaming. They were the ones who invested and drove all of
the technology that your favorite movie services use now. You love your
Netflix? Send a thank you letter to the porn industry. You like the fact that
there is High Definition in your digital streaming? Yep the porn industry got
that for you too. You see that goes back to the formats we use for digital now.
The movie industry (the people who sell porn but basically call it Hollywood)
wanted nothing to do with any digital content. All they saw was the ability to
steal intellectual property, and the more technology to do so made them quite
angry.

Still wonder how I can make these claims so free of thought
and conscience? We all have a Blu-Ray player now. We think it is the greatest
of the greatest and the technology behind them is breath taking. Most of them
have build in online streaming capabilities, and that has opened up a lot of
doors for us too. It was actually Sony getting a bit of revenge on everyone who
standardized the VHS tape over their superior Betamax systems. When the need
for High Definition came about in our home theaters the Phillips people who
brought you the DVD already had the upper hand as they were making what they
had hoped would be the new standard, the SDVD or Super DVD. Sony had come out
with the Blu-Ray which was as usual a better technology, as the Blu-Ray doesn’t
heat up as much as the old Digital Video Rays do. The lemmings in the industry
expected the movie industry to just sign off on the SDVD and Sony could pound
sand, but as I said before, if you rely on Hollywood’s greed to get your
product out there, you are doomed to failure. Sony got it. They marketed their
technology to the porn industry, and were standardized within a month of the
first case of Blu-Rays full of pornography shipped.

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